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Title: Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Author: H. Addington Bruce

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HISTORIC GHOSTS

AND

GHOST HUNTERS

HISTORIC GHOSTS

AND

GHOST HUNTERS

BY

H. ADDINGTON BRUCE

_Author of "The Riddle of Personality"_

NEW YORK

MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

1908

_Copyright_, 1908, _by_

MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

NEW YORK

***

_Published, September, 1908_

_The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A._

To

THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND

JOHN J. HENRY

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE ix

I. THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN 1

II. THE DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH 17

III. THE HAUNTING OF THE WESLEYS 36

IV. THE VISIONS OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG 56

V. THE COCK LANE GHOST 81

VI. THE GHOST SEEN BY LORD BROUGHAM 102

VII. THE SEERESS OF PREVORST 120

VIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. HOME 143

IX. THE WATSEKA WONDER 171

X. A MEDIEVAL GHOST HUNTER 198

XI. GHOST HUNTERS OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY 216

PREFACE

The following pages represent in the main a discussion of certain
celebrated mysteries, as viewed in the light of the discoveries set
forth in the writer's earlier work "The Riddle of Personality."

That dealt, it may briefly be recalled, with the achievements of those
scientists whose special endeavor it is to illumine the nature of human
personality. On the one hand, it reviewed the work of the
psychopathologists, or investigators of abnormal men